The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.

Friday, December 26, 2008

From NYT Bureau: inside information

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"As an Iraqi journalist, I’ve had a hard time understanding why Arab people are treating us with dignity now after this type of behavi...

March 14-Israeli alliance? What March 14 Israeli alliance?

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March 14-Israeli alliance. (thanks As`ad--not me)
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Arab Zionist and Livni celebrating

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She just told him she wants to invade Gaza and continues to starve its population. Look at her expressions: this is what Arab governments n...

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"Olmert urges Gazans to stop Hamas". Angry Arab urges Israelis to stop Israel. (thanks Marcy)

Arab Zionism

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" Egypt has informed Israel that it would not object to a limited Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, the London-based newspa...

Unbearable..unto the nations

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"Livni tells Mubarak: We'll act to halt 'unbearable' Gaza rocket fire". Palestinians tell Livni: "We'll act...

Generalizations, generalizations.

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So according to NYT's Michael Slackman, it is over. We might as well go to sleep. "Today, the search for identity in the Middle E...

Shoe incident

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A student in Bin Jubayl in South Lebanon threw a shoe at his teacher.

Shoe cartoons in Arab media

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This is a very nice collection of shoe cartoons from the sleazy Saudi website elaph. The one above says: "Unforgettable shoes! [From r...

Sponsorship of Shoe Debate on Hariri TV

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Amer wrote this for Iraqslogger: "As with most Arab satellite channels, Future TV (founded by the Lebanese Hariri family, an ally of S...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Human Trafficking in the Beacon of Freedom

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"The reality is that human trafficking goes on in nearly every American city and town, said Lisette Arsuaga, director of development fo...

Bush Doctrine Update

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"Iraqi police say attackers have decapitated the leader of the women's league of the Kurdish Communist Party.A police officer says ...

Zeee planes, zeee Russian planes

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Comrade Khalid writes on Zee new Russian planes obtained by Lebanon, and their real purpose.

Thus spoke the Muftititititi

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"When King Saud University in Riyadh announced holding a marathon for female students, the mufti of the kingdom put his foot down and ...

War Crimes make the nation proud

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"The United States, like many countries, has a bad habit of committing wartime excesses and an even worse record of accounting for the...

Lebanese inventions

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The dude wants to prove "the ability of the Lebanese people to do unusual things". But you don't have to invent a potato ca...

On the Big Screen, Where All the Arabs Are Israeli

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"On the Big Screen, Where All the Arabs Are Israeli" (thanks Karim)

NYT refers to Mujahideen Khalq as "resistance group"

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"An Iranian resistance group on Monday condemned a renewed push by the Iraqi government to deport its members as a result of undue Ira...

Why do they write separate articles on Palestinian Christians?

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"Fr Ibrahim, who insists the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is the main factor driving Christians away, is less optimistic about ...

The Fate of Lebanon

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"Michael Herzog, Defense Minister Ehud Barak's chief of staff, was the last Israeli official to speak in such terms, saying at a W...

From Brazil

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Maryam sent me this from Brazil: "Billboard in Brazil that I thought only you could take seriously. In Portuguese it reads, [Obama]: ...

"We Shall Miss you, O Thomas" Friedman

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Anis Naqqash (for his background see here ) writes a devastating piece on Thomas Friedman, titled "We shall Miss you, o Thomas" . ...

The Lebanese Left

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Comrade Samah on the tasks of the Left in Lebanon.

Gaza Suffering

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"The breakdown of an entire society is happening in front of us, but there is little international response beyond UN warnings which ar...

This is Zionist (in)justice

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"In September 2007, Ehud Gadot, a resident of the Yitav settlement, fired at Palestinians who were grazing their flocks in the area of...

I Told You So, Damn It

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"After giving Bush a C- for his presidency, [Pat] Robertson said he’s “remarkably pleased with Obama.” Despite having “grave misgiving...

From Abbas to Kim Jong Il...with Love

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"General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a floral basket by Mahmoud Abbas, Chief of the Palestinian National Authority, on th...

"What does As`ad AbuKhalil want from me"?

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So according to this article by Irahim Al-Amin, Lebanon's Minister of Information, Tariq Mitri, asked: "What does As`ad AbuKhalil ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

"Barely passing"

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He was my English teacher in high school, when I was into politics and goofing and not into school at all. He was a nice guy and did not co...

Bush Forgiveness

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"In a gesture of forgiveness for an American considered a hero in Israel, President George W. Bush on Tuesday granted a pardon posthumo...

Cleric of Senility

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I am supposed to be grading but I just saw Shaykh of Al-Azhar (the cleric of senility) on Al-Arabiyya TV (the station of King Fahd's bro...

Selfless philanthropy at its best

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I have never heard of a more self-less act. What generosity and what selflessness. And it comes in the right season. "Clinton Won...

For those who asked me

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No, you may not toss a shoe or a rotten egg or a tomato at Maronite Patriarch, Sfayr. I checked with Lebanese law, and you can't do tha...

Bahraini tyranny

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From BBC monitoring (no link): "Akhbar al-Khalij Online publishes a report on 22 December on the legislative proposal submitted by Bahr...

Chef Ramzi: Buche de Garlic

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Chef Ramzi is a skilled chef who has a show on Future TV (he was once profiled in the New York Times). Yesterday, he was making a Bûche de ...

I Told You So, Damn IT

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"Mrs. Clinton and President-elect Barack Obama have not settled on specific envoys or missions, although Mr. Ross’s name has been menti...

More of this will come under Obama

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"A suspected US drone aircraft is reported to have killed at least eigh people in two missile strikes in southern Pakistan, near the b...

Shoes in Ukraine

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"Oleg Soskin, a member of the Ukraine-NATO Social League Coordination Council, was making a speech when he was interrupted by a journa...

My first bookshop

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"Emotions ran high on Friday as customers and friends gathered to bid farewell to the Ras Beirut Bookshop on Bliss Street, which close...

Shoe terrorist plot

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" Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved Monday to undermine the popularity of the Iraqi who threw his shoes at President George W. B...

"Son of...Israel"

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Iraqi puppet speaker of the puppet parliament got into a fight with one of the puppet deputies, Thomas Friedman's favorite Iraqi, Mithal...

Occupation in Disguise"?

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"Though the deadline for withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities has been decided as June 30, 2009, experts have argued that roughly...

A calamity unto the Nations

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"Growing tensions between ultra-Orthodox and religious residents in the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, have recently escalated ...

Methods of Saudi Media

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I have noticed this about Saudi media. They know that they can't attract Arab readers and viewers with their despised political agenda ...

Good news from Saudi Arabia

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"The government has set spending of 475 billion riyals (127 billion dollars) compared with 510 billion riyals (136 billion dollars ) i...
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